July 2010 - Mike Taulty's Blog - Mike Taulty's Blog

OData: The Open Data Protocol

Mike asked me to write something about OData for this week’s MSDN Flash Newsletter – reproducing that below – mostly just a bit of fun as it’s hard to fit anything into these short articles. It’s hard to write an article to teach you anything about OData in...

Published Wed, Jul 28 2010 2:29 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: OData, WCFDataServices

Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (6–Validation)

One of the strengths of WCF RIA Services is in its capabilities around the application of common validation logic on both the client tier and the service tier. If I take the simplest route to create a new Silverlight+RIA Services project as in File | New Project;...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 4:37 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, VisualStudio, WCFRIAServices

Silverlight and WebSockets

I was intrigued by this post from Tomek which has links to a prototype of an application built with Silverlight but using WebSockets. It’s kind of interesting because running the application in IE9 gives me; now, the only bit of that application that’s actually...

Published Tue, Jul 27 2010 12:03 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, WebServices, Silverlight

“The Way of MEF”–UK Sessions with Glenn Block

We were very lucky to have Glenn Block in the UK recently and he did a whole morning talking about the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) to a fairly packed room of around 120 developers on the UK Microsoft Campus. I was really pleased to be able to host...

Published Mon, Jul 26 2010 9:56 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, UKCommunities, NETFramework4, VisualStudio, MEF

Visual Studio Solution Navigator

From the Visual Studio blog, the “Solution Navigator” looks pretty cool… Update: I changed my mind on this. This is not just about the “Solution Navigator” which turns out to be very cool indeed and a far better way of navigating around your solution than the...

Published Fri, Jul 23 2010 9:05 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: VisualStudio

Debugging a “Silverlight Business Application” Out Of Browser

If you’re using RIA Services then you might be using the “Silverlight Business Application” template which has an issue with out-of-browser debugging which causes it to throw an exception rather than start your debugging session properly. Fortunately, it’s...

Published Tue, Jul 20 2010 12:52 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, VisualStudio, WCFRIAServices

48 Best Free Software Downloads from Microsoft

Just a quick call-out for a page I visit from time to time on TechRadar. “ 48 best free software downloads from Microsoft ” It’s been there a while but I had cause to revisit it today to find out more about the free “Learning Content Development System” which...

Published Tue, Jul 20 2010 12:40 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: OffTopic

WCF DataServices & the Processing Pipeline?

I spent quite a lot of time with WCF Data Services (‘Astoria’/’ADO.NET Data Services’ as it was) in its first iteration. It’s a framework that I really like so I’m feeling a little guilty that I haven’t found time to completely revisit it as it becomes part...

Published Tue, Jul 20 2010 12:30 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, ADO.NET, WCF, DataServices, NETFramework4, VisualStudio

OData Slides from the NxtGen User Group Festival

I did a short session on the Open Data Protocol (OData) last week at the NxtGen User Group and I thought I’d share the slides here. There are quite a few builds/animations in that slide-deck so I’d suggest that downloading it will produce a better experience...

Published Mon, Jul 19 2010 11:48 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, C#, ADO.NET, WebServices, WCF, EntityFramework, DataServices, NETFramework4, VisualStudio

A Sliver of Silverlight on ActiveTuts

I’ve got a couple of little Silverlight tutorials up on the ActiveTuts site; for active followers of this blog and for folks that are heavily into Silverlight they’re possibly a bit on the introductory-end of the spectrum and I certainly don’t claim that they...

Published Mon, Jul 5 2010 11:48 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, VisualStudio, Blend

Whitepapers on the Parallel Computing Developer Centre

The Parallel developer centre on MSDN has a growing number of whitepapers that are really worth delving into. I’d started reading this one ( it’s a big one but worthwhile ); Patterns for Parallel Programming- Understanding and Applying Parallel Patterns with...

Published Mon, Jul 5 2010 10:30 AM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, ParallelExtensions, VisualStudio

Silverlight and WCF RIA Services (5–Authentication)

It’s a fairly common requirement that a business service authenticates a client and it’s usually (at least) for the purpose of authorisation whereby we can control which users have access to an application or to some of its functionality. The two ways you usually...

Published Fri, Jul 2 2010 2:51 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, Silverlight, WCFRIAServices

Professional Scrum Developer (.NET) Training in London (Paid)

Just a quick link to the week of “Professional Scrum Developer Training” that’s being run by Adam Cogan and Martin Hinshelwood in the week of 26th July to 30th July. You can find the details on Martin’s blog here; Professional Scrum Developer Training and it...

Published Thu, Jul 1 2010 12:14 PM by mtaulty

Filed under: .NET, UKCommunities, VisualStudio

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